Quotes About Dishonesty

People do not necessarily reveal what is going on - only bad actors do.

All these things they've been saying are a pack of lies.

I mean, the conservative movement in this country has been selling a pack of lies for a long time.

We delude ourselves that we want to implant honesty in our children: what we really want is to imbue them with our particular kind of dishonesty, with our culture's dishonesty. —Sidney Harris

Superficial.ism is a religion. It's simply hypocrisy...

dishonesty. The 1984 Police and Criminal Evidence Act requires the recording of all interviews. Most of the major cases involving fabricated evidence predated the act. However, in one case in 1989, the lord chief justice quashed

Then, beaming at Tom and Caul, he topped up their glasses with more wine to wash down the pack of half-truths and outright lies he'd fed them

But we're left stunted, compromised, by the burden of having to always lie and censor ourselves.

A liar is always lavish of oaths.

It takes a good memory to keep up a lie.

Even when they are trying to deceive the voters, the Democrats are incompetent.

Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.

Trump has learned over his long career as a lying liar who lies that none of his stories have to be true.

I don't like being lied to.

Bad liars always think they're good at it. (quoting Michael Moynihan)

Everything he did was at least partial and often total bullshit" (402).

Point is, people lie a lot. Sometimes out of habit. Not many people are good at telling the truth.

While it is always possible to wake a person who's sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.

It's always possible to wake someone from sleep, but no amount of noise will wake someone who is pretending to be asleep.

It is always possible to wake someone from sleep, but no amount of noise will wake someone who is pretending to be asleep.

the smile on his lips didn't reach his eyes.

Mrs. Delson had called it "promising", which I took to mean it was promising. But you eventually realise something if you're inundated with empty compliments like that- You've got loads of potential, Alistair! You've got the makings of someone great, Alistair! It's all part of a comforting but dishonest language that's used to encourage, but not to praise.

The ability to lie successfully, then, is partly correlated with savvy social skills. Sucking up.

The price of deceit is to feel like a cockroach.